For years, Cayden Mak and the grassroots community groups he works with knew that attacks against vulnerable Asian seniors in Chinatowns across the country were a perennial problem. But he said the model minority myth, a persistent stereotype that paints Asian Americans as inherently successful and problem-free, particularly in contrast […]
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TOKYO — Spectators from abroad will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics this summer. The decision was announced after a meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government, the Tokyo government, the International Paralympic Committee and local organizers. Officials say the risk was too great to admit fans from […]
(CNN) — As the world ground to a halt last March, many travelers expected to be globetrotting again in a few months time. Here we are just over a year later. But with the rapid development of effective vaccines and increased distribution of those life-saving doses in some countries, glimmers […]
After Donald Trump downplayed COVID-19 for months, staff members at his Mar-a-Lago club reportedly tested positive for the virus. Twitter finds it ironic that Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago club was reportedly forced to shut down some of its services because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Multiple staff members at Trump’s favorite getaway […]
Have you ever played the lottery? Gerville/Getty Images The Powerball — formerly known as Lotto America — is the closest thing the US has to a national lottery. Residents of or visitors to 45 states as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are […]
Claudio Lavanga, NBC News’ Rome correspondent, has reported on a wide variety of stories. Most recently, he has helped document the pandemic’s terrible toll in Italy, where xxx have died and xxx been sickened. Now, as the country goes through a third Covid-19 wave, he describes how his family became […]
Coronation Street: Kelly says she’d ‘do anything’ to see her dad ITV soap Coronation Street has recently seen Cathy Matthews (played by Melanie Hill) turn uncharacteristically cruel after a clash with Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) which led to her leaving nasty online comments about Tracy and her partner Steve McDonald […]
In nearly a dozen conversations this past week with scholars, activists and historians, the sadness and grief around this inflection point was clear — as was the recognition of how starkly divided two professional paths for Asian immigrants in this country have been. The Asian-American story has been a complicated […]